Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-28
HISTORY OF TEXAS.
adapted From Forthcoming Work on
tho Lone Star State.
Gsinesvlile Registl

Gainesville Register.
Judge Gruobs of GTeenville has writ
ten humorous history of Texas. Tht
Register has not been favored with ad
vanCed sheets or with any review of the
book, and cannot, therefore, form any
estimate of the character or merits of the
work, but by giving play to the insignia
ton may anticipate some of its humors
For example, passing over the early his
tory OF the state, it may be sefely as
sUmed that the ubiquitous boom will Sc
cure It's due share OF attention and that
the thriving towns and cities of Texas
will be written up in manner
calculated TO turn the tide Of i'm
migration from the older states OF
the Union and from Transatlantic and
Pacific countries TeXasward and induce
tremendous influx of capital for invest
ment in enterprises that promise enor-
nous returns. Partly in anticipation and
partly BY way of suggestion the Register
offers the following samples Of town
writeups:
Galveston seaport town on an island
of the Gulf of Mexico, found by Lattte
and founded by Galvez. For q long
while il was inhabited exclusively oy
pirates who gave il distinctive charac-
Ter which it has ever since maintained.
OF late years the piracy of the inhabitants
mas been confined chiefly to the island,
attacks upon the state and national
treasures having been driven back
with great loss TO the deep water
islanders. Galveston was formerly the
home CT Tom OChutree and Horace B.
Hammer, and is a. present under the
dominion Of Roger lawson Fulton, the
msn who first discovered President Cleve-
land and who enjoys the proud distinction
OF discovering without being discovered.
Its chief products are sand crabs and fish
chowder. Offers splendid inducements
tor canning factories and mental repose.
Fort Worth, alias PantheTville-A muSh
room village situated at the confluence Of
two forks of the Trinity river. 1t is
chiefly remarkable as the place where the
panther laid down, though just why there
should be anythiBg remarkable about that
is only known 10 the Fort WORTHLESS. Il
is also noted as the place where more
people get on and off the train than
stay CT, as carefully computed By limb
RIttOn, local celebrity and statistiCian.
John Petersmth, the inventor Of the in
iation instrument known as the boom,
aCiieved great fame as the burgCmaster
Of the village, but WAS subsequently, vanz
pushed in q tilt with q knight of the
Drawn and muscle party. Chief products
railroads and aFtesian well water.
Dalas-A prosperous hamlet on the
Trinity river. thirty miles east OF Fort
Worth, opposite the towns of Oak Cliff
and Glencoe. II was settled in IG04 by
john Henry BEowd, and Unsettled in
1885,, by Barney Gibbs. 1t is at present
1857. the nome Of Governor Bill Ster-
rert, pulveriZer Of the PcOhibitionIsts, and
prospective candidate for vice-pre
Gency The inhabitants subsist on
3 thick watery substance of about the
consistency Of cruel, composed of equal
parts OF Trinity river water, mud in sOlu-
ton and Fort Worth sewage. sThe
CHIEF Industry consists IN transferring
real estate titles and urging neighboring
towns to send railroads TO its market.
San acknowledgements as 2 town of
two ThermOpylas, the first of which had
no messenger Of defeat while in the last
they swarmed as numerouslv as the rot
,FRR eggs that followed after them. Later
historians nave given this town the name
of HoodlumviIle, on account of the
character OF its inhabitants and especially
Of It's municipal officers. 1t is some
times called TcmaleyIlle, in Commemo-
ration of ils chief Industry, which con
sis.s in the manufacture Of 8 sort
OF greasy corn husk capsule
which the inha 5it6nts desig-
nate tameles, the same being prepared
from the flesh Of such domestic animals
as may be caugnfjl traps or other snares
provided Tor them The population is
largely made Up OF Me&icans, Indians,
negroes and dogs.
IrDr--Ou 4 y1gr- nj ln-~u on 10
trsi Railroad, about fifty miles from the
Gulf OF Mexico, chiefly noted as seaport |
without any sea. Il is the seat of state I
enCgmpments and press conventions and |
is the home OF Dan NIcGary, Hamp Cook, !
the Bohemian Club and variety Of anti |
ProhibitiOnists. Chief industries, soda |
water factory and Buffalo Bayou fish |
traps. II has for ''SignhOard" Post, /
upon which are ergravCn all its business |
enterprises.
Waco-The Athens Of America, the
Boston, Concord and Vassar of Texas
and the center Of the world. The inhabi-
tants subsist chiefly on mush and milk
and are extremely mild sad docile. Two
of the most eminent men and mot ger
lie and loving spirits Of the stat, carson
Barrow and Colonel Crautill, reside in
Waco. Poplustiou pTeCariOuS Products
free thinkers snd campaign literature.
Slerman-Countv scat of GraYson
county, celebrated for its soc. 900 Jail and
the number OF lis inmates.
Dentson-A settlement in the suburbs
OF Sherman, with q blacksmith shop,
p0stohice snG 3 mortgage.
Gainesville-The me ropolis of Texas
and future great city CT the southwest
HeslthfulIy located on q high rolling
prairie, and surrounded by the richest
ard most fertile country on the face Of
the GLOBE. At the present rate Of pro-
gress population doubles itself every six
months, ana property values increase at
the yats. of 33I per cent. monthly, or 100
per rent each quarter, Population for
May, 1890 Census for July not ye45
She Excellent Qualities
OF the delightful liquid fruit remedy,
- ,ssFs.as--Sl tFigs, commend it to all who
sn+er fueth habitrsi constipation and kin
bred iK.' Bzing insIiquid form and pleas ]
ing 10 the tastes harmless ls fts nature,